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  1.   RaceFanX posted:
  01.30.2016 - 7:11 pm
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Good Time Park was a triangular 1-mile dirt track that was primarily
used for horse racing. The property's use for training horses dates back
to late 1890s with the track being built in 1926. The track only held
occasional auto races. It's best remembered as the birth place of the
Hambletonian Stakes, the first leg of the Triple Crown of Harness Racing
for Trotters. That race moved away in 1956 (it's now at the Meadowlands
but it first moved to another car/horse racing track, Illinois' DuQuoin
State Fairgrounds) and the track faded away, holding its last races in
the 1970s and having its facilities demolished in the early 1980s.

The old track surface still somewhat exists, you can see it in satellite
photography, but it is no longer usable as a state highway now cuts
through the southern part of the track.


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